Rahul Gandhi should check his own parliamentary record: Top quotes from Arun Jaitley interview

On opposition's demand of PM's presence in Parliament

Opposition is entitled to demand the PM's presence. And we have agreed to that. Now if the debate goes on for 15 hours, you can't expect the PM to be present the whole time leaving behind his engagements. As far as Rahul Gandhi is concerned, I want to tell him to check his own record.

In every village we are now having a system of mobile ATMs where people can withdraw money. We are also having bank correspondents who are going to each village.

Merely because there is short term inconvenience which I regret, it doesn't mean we can never change and grow.

People were being hired to stand in queues outside banks and ATMs where people were standing to withdraw money but when we started using indelible ink, the queues started to disappear.

On two different Rs 500 notes

Both variants of the new Rs 500 are valid legal tenders as long as they have security features and signatures of Reserve Bank governor

On Nitish Kumar's praise for demonetisation

Some chief ministers have taken very positive approach on the demonetisation decision. And everyone is entitled to have his own views.

Government and RBI have been reacting to market realities almost on a daily basis